Mindat Short Description
Autunite Group.
A secondary mineral found in the oxidized zones of some uraniferous copper deposits. Often dehydrated to metatorbernite (note that also transparent crystals can already be metatorbernite).
Geoscience Ontology Status Notes
Estner F J A, Werner A G, Karsten D L G, Leske N G (1790) Chlorit-Erde, Chlorit-Schieser, in Frenmüthige Gedanken über herrn Inspector Werners Berbesserungen in der Mineralogie: nebst einigen Bemerkungen über Herrn Assessor Karstens Beschreibung des vom sel. Leske hinterlassenen Mineralien-Cabinetts, Wappler (Wien) 28-30
IMA Formula (from Mindat)
Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 12H2O
RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)
Cu2+(U6+O2)2(PO4)2·12H2O